2019 – Official documentary section

ADRIANA'S PACT

2017 / 96 mins / Documentary / Chile / Lissette Orozco

It recounts the director's vision of her grandmother, Adriana Rivas, former personal secretary of Manuel Contreras and member of the DINA, for which she is judicially accused of torture, kidnappings and murders.

GOLDEN DOWN GIRLS / THE GIRLS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

2017 / 95 mins / Documentary / Norway / Håvard Bustnes /

"What happened to Greece?" is what director Håvard Bustnes asks at the beginning of the documentary. Recently, its image of a sunny country and friendly people has been overshadowed by political ideologies that are close to Nazism. With many members of the right-wing Golden Dawn movement already behind bars, a daughter, a wife and a mother continue to spread their message, and they are smart enough not to make mistakes. They usually stop the interviews to check that everything turned out the way they wanted, but this time Bustnes leaves the camera on.

HAMADA

2018 / 89 mins / Documentary / Sweden / Eloy Domínguez Serén

In the middle of that desert of nothingness that is the Sahara, the generations to which Morocco denied the country in 1975 are raised. The present time passes by killing hours but you are young and there are friends, there is necessary laughter, there are rebellious ideas and there are dreams Nonconformists said very loud and clear. Far from bowing their heads, they fix cars that can run, even if they don't go beyond the barbed wire and walls that want them to be held back and invisible. And even protected if they don't bother you.

MAKING SENSE TOGETHER

2018 / 68 mins / Documentary / Sweden / Ellen Ugelstad

SPAIN PREMIERE

Through five close and personal testimonies, the film highlights the power structures in the health service as told by users, family members and employees. What does feeling helpless do to your mental health and your own sense of self? What is it like to live with the feeling of helplessness for a longer period of time? How does it affect the people who exercise power?

NEITHER ADAM NOR EVE: AN INTERSEX STORY

2018 / 58 mins / Documentary / France / Floriane Devigne

SPAIN PREMIERE

How can you live with a gender that was surgically decided from your birth in order to fit in? M wants to be independent and begins to correspond with Deborah, also intersex. Through these letters and meetings, we can share their experiences.

RAGE LISTS

2017 / 110 mins / Documentary / Israel / Yaron Ben-Haim

SPAIN PREMIERE

Yaron Ben-Haim's Protest Diary is a two-part, seven-year odyssey. From the social protest in the summer of 2011 to the weekly demonstration against the separation barrier in Ni'lin. The film traces the changes in Israeli society, along with the personal costs of social activism in general, and particularly in the Palestinian village.

STRIKE A ROCK

2017 / 84 mins / Documentary / South Africa / Aliki Saragas

After a massacre shakes the foundations of their poverty-stricken mining community, Marikana, two grandmothers rise from their homes and lead their community in a historic fight against seemingly insurmountable odds for justice and dignity. In an intimate story where the personal becomes political through the struggle from the ground to the corridors of power, how will these women confront Goliath's enemies and make their voices heard?

THE RAPE OF RECY TAYLOR

2017 / 91 mins / Documentary / South Africa / Nancy Buirski  

Mrs. Recy Taylor was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Uninterrupted, she spoke out and fought for justice with the help of Rosa Parks and legions of women.

POLICE KILLING

2018 / 105 mins / Documentary / Brazil / Natasha Neri, Lula Carvalho

SPAIN PREMIERE

Documentary about homicides carried out by the police against civilians, in Rio de Janeiro, in situations initially classified as legitimate defense. The dead man is accused of being a trafficker and having exchanged shots with the police, but the police version is questioned by the emergence of videos and by the struggle of mothers who try to prove the innocence of their children.

HEALTH WITHOUT PAPERWORK

2018 / 84 mins /Documentary / USA / Juan Freitez

EUROPE PREMIERE

Provoked by a neo-Nazi rally, a diverse group of activists organize the community to build a free clinic dedicated to caring for undocumented immigrants, breaking the cycle of oppression perpetrated by disparities in the American healthcare system.